Antonia Bird (Priest) directed this 1997 cockney crime feature; with Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone.
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All Power to the People!: The Black Panther Party and Beyond
In the opening to his video documentary, director Lee Lew-Lee remembers filming the 1992 LA riots as a network news cameraman. How could things have gone so wrong? he wondered. What had become of the 60s idealists, the “people who thought they could change anything”? His answer seems to be that the revolutionary Black Panther […]
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The Birchwood
A 1970 film by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, about two brothers—one dying of tuberculosis, one grieving over the death of his wife. 99 min.